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Show BIG DEMONSTRATION FOLLOWS ADDRESS BY PERSHING Great Mate Meeting OffieU Pro-German Propaganda Against Allies KKW TO". Marra it on hundred hun-dred per rent Amarieaniem manifested Itaeif t-rtday night when lltv aer-aona aer-aona crowded Inle Madison eiquare Uerden to proleet with the American legmn sgiinst Ihe meeting held I her a few wee ago ta voire objection l the "horror en th Khln " e th occupation oc-cupation of Oermany by tYenrb colonial colo-nial tronna waa then deacrthed orators at laal n'fhl a meeting hurled arathtng remarka ai Ihnaa whu would attempt ta foster ideal her other than American, and each ene waa met with ehouta and rheere frt.m the entholeellc audience . (teneral John J. I'erahing and the gold s'ar mother ahgred Ihe honor a of lha meeting. MOTHtnt APPLAUOID. A demonctrstlon lasting fully ten mtnulea ocaurred aa the proroeaion of gold star mothera entered. rarortd br a marine guard and military band. A few momenta later a bugle announced th entrwor nf (teneral I'erahing. and another demonatration equal lo the firai look place. l.glon poats from all over the city came trooping In behind be-hind their rotor bearer, and aa each arrived II waa lha signal for renewed cheer. Although the great hall waa parked lo overflowing, thoueande crowded about outiMde In a vain effort to enter Impromptu "four-minute speakers" gathered their audience on afreet corner cor-ner Kour hundred policemen guarded guard-ed tha area, but there rrl na disturbance. disturb-ance. OALiHAITH -"IllOta. Colonel P. W. tialbralth Jr. national commander of the American legion, prerided af the mealing, and when In hla brief addrea he paid a tribute to lha gnld alar mothera. no eound but the apeaker a vnirv could be heard. The vast audience bowed Ita head, men handkerchlefa went to their eyes, and women enhhed audibly. A moment later tha crowd broke Into prolonged eheertng when nlonel tialbralth pointed lo a section of th gallery reserved re-served for wounded eiHdlere and de-acribed de-acribed the men aa the "real neroea of Ihe war " As lleneral Pershing waa Introduced te the audien.'a he waa given another uvatlon, the crowd rising to It feet and cheering for five minute Kollowlng lleneral I'trshlng address ad-dress resolution wre unanimously adopted condemning "tha spread of miachrevou propaganda among our people." and reeenung a -disloyal" any attempt to breed dlsoeneion between be-tween our country ana tu ainea. HAVI NO QUARREL. neneral I'erahing, paying tribute to foreign born cittaena who aerved under un-der him In tha Philippines. Meiiro and Kranra. declared It waa entirely proper that foreignera ahould cMng to th folk lore, literator and mueic of the native land, but he aaaailed thoee who aeek lo dictate Amrtcan nuaationa and po-Htlnal po-Htlnal pniiclea by th standards of their own countries. "W have no quarrel with Ihe Amerl-rana Amerl-rana nf foreign birth." he aald. "We want ihem lo know that America I an Inspiration. Hut wa do object to the foreign born rinten mho attempts to deride an American question for a foreign for-eign reason, whether h be of flerman lineage and propose to determine an American policy because of German prejurlr. or whether ho be Irish, Italian, Ital-ian, Hungarian or Kueaian, who seek for similar reasons to decide American queatlona. I bitterly resent the abuse of American citlsenshtp or residence for ihe purpose of political or warlike propaganda In foreign countries. MUST HONEtf. "In America there ran be no place for those who. while claiming equal ciilsenahip with ua and enjoying lis privllrgva under our flsg, yet continue their allegiance to another country. We welcome all thoe who honestly desire lo become AmerKan rlllsens and adopt America ua their own. bul we abhor Ihe Intriguer, who at the same lima would secretly plot against our inlrr-st. inlrr-st. "Two year have passed and what of today? Ar we to forget the tuws of yesterday? Is the wanton ilesf ruction In r'raiu-e and ftelirlum and on the seas to be condoned? Hhall subtle propaganda propa-ganda again lift its poisonous head to weaken our friendship? Are thoae who made the anpreme surrifire no longer to be remembered among us? TO PAY PENALTY. "Tha answer la that th principles for whlrh America fought are immutable immuta-ble and the alllee besides whom we fought ar our friends. America shall remain ateadlaat In her altitude against aggreslon and Insist that outlaw nations na-tions ba held to full responsibility and pay th full penalty for their misdeed mis-deed to the end. that In th future ail naliona may know tha cost of aut-ta misdeed against rtvtltiallnn." letters Indorsing the meeting were received from President Harding and American legion oate and state heau-quartere heau-quartere all over ihe country and from Ihe A. It. and tha I'nlied Confederate Confed-erate Yelerune. , |